2018 has been characterised by frequent peaks and troughs in the world of blockchain and cryptocurrency, yet there remains an unwavering army of seasoned investors who are keen to invest in blockchain technology. Many experts are in agreement that it will become an integral part of the future of securing data and will help to eliminate issues like the recent data breaches at the NHS and British Airways.

The problem for many investors is the uncertainty and confusion associated with blockchain and cryptocurrency investments. Firstly, identifying listed companies which are directly involved in blockchain takes time and due diligence. Secondly, if looking to invest in private companies, you need to know someone in the business will be willing to sell a stake – and then there is the risk that you may never be able to sell that stake in the future. Finally, investing in cryptocurrencies themselves is widely regarded as a difficult process for the average investor. The standard process is to buy Bitcoin from an exchange such as Coinbase, transfer to a crypto exchange such as Binance, buy and sell other cryptos, then reverse the process to cash out. Each of these stages takes time and effort and leaves the investor open to numerous risks such as complicated validation protocols, multiple accounts and simply knowing when to buy and sell.

These large and complex challenges are what has led to the launch of Quantatex, a new to market, actively managed alternative investment account which allows investors to begin capitalising on opportunities in the blockchain space quickly, simply and efficiently, without needing to spend time developing their own understanding of this often complex area of trading.

Quantatex trades both sides of the market by employing long and short trading to exploit the significant intraday moves, thereby minimising the losses through stringent risk management and capitalising on the gains by running trades to their optimum valuation. Investments are updated daily and clients have 24 access to their funds to add or withdraw whenever they wish.

The Quantatex team comprises skilled traders and qualified analysts, who collectively have over 50 years of experience in financial markets and bring to bear techniques and strategies, developed over years in the equity, FX and commodity markets. Furthermore, all Quantatex traders are qualified to at least RDR level 4 with the CISI (Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment) are on the FCA register and all analysts hold CFA (Chartered Financial Analyst) qualifications.

Opening an account with Quantatex is easy. Customers can either register for an account online at www.quantatex.com or pop into the company office in Cornwall, UK. Mitch Blakeway, Head of Trading at Quantatex, believes that the New Year is a prime time for investors to add blockchain and cryptocurrencies to their portfolio, given the explosive nature of the market in recent months.

“Traditional investment markets have historically been slow to move when compared to the exciting asset class of cryptocurrencies. Through extensive and detailed back testing over a number of months, our team has found that the tried and tested techniques and strategies can be successfully applied to cryptocurrencies in order to produce favourable returns. Whilst investing in cryptocurrencies remains an extremely high risk investment, we employ the most stringent of risk management techniques to ensure the funds we manage stand the best chances of achieving positive growth,” explains Mitch.

E-commerce is one of the largest and fastest growing sectors in the world, and it has the statistics to back it up. A report conducted by Statista revealed that it generated around $2.3 trillion in revenues and expected to reach up to $4.5 trillion in 2021.

In the United States alone, 10 percent of retail sales are from e-commerce, and that figure is growing every year by 15 percent.

These figures reveal the opportunity in-store for e-commerce businesses and also the fact that they cannot survive by relying on their brick-and-mortar stores anymore. In other words, they have to be where their customers hour 24/7.

With that said, we can say that some of the most successful businesses in the world are e-commerce sites. But what is their secret to success? How did they get there when other have difficulty?

Below are five of the most successful e-commerce sites and some lessons we can all learn from, especially for those who are planning to have an online venture.

Amazon

Amazon is considered the leader of the pack when it comes to e-commerce; however, it did not reach that status overnight.

Established in 1994 as Cadabra, Inc., it had a detestable logo and a website that left little to desire for. Moreover, it only sold books.

Fast forward to now – Amazon is the exact opposite of everything it was at the beginning.

There are many reasons why Amazon became a success, but the primary factor for that is how they leverage data. You can see that in widgets filled with unique product recommendations across the site. That catches the eyes of any visitor giving them the opportunity to make more purchase.

All through the years, Amazon has mastered the art of online retail, especially in giving visitors a personalized experience. By gathering the behavior data of their visitors, they know what kind of products attract each buyer and what they use to draw attention.

Aside from that, Amazon has one of the most secure payment gateways, making people feel secure in giving their card information details. E-commerce startups should always put a secure payment gateway on top of their priority lists. Some of these include Skrill, Monetha, Stripe, and PayPal Payments Pro.

As of 2017, Amazon has an estimated $177.866 billion in revenues.

Lazada

Lazada is to Southeast Asia as Amazon is to North America. The Rocket Internet created it because of Amazon’s lack of presence in the region.

Launched only in 2012, Lazada is the largest e-commerce platform in Singapore, Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, and Indonesia.

At first, Lazada had its warehouse where it stored most of the goods they sold. However, they allowed third-party retailers to sell their products in 2013. That move proved to be one of the best it had done because it has accounted for 65% of in 2014.

Lazada continued to secure its place in the region as the number one online retail platform when it struck a deal with Jack Ma’s Alibaba Group. The deal gave Alibaba a controlling stake in the company.

In 2016, Lazada claimed that their total annual sales in their Southeast Asian market are $1.36 billion.

Zalora

Dubbed as Asia’s Online Fashion Destination, Zalora can be considered Lazada’s competitor in the region. However, there are a few minor differences between them. Zalora only sells clothing, shoes, and accessories. Aside from Southeast Asia, it also operates in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Australia, and New Zealand.

Zalora was founded in Singapore in 2011 with the goal of making top fashion brands accessible and more affordable for everyone.

According to a report in Tech in Asia, Zalora’s 2015 – 2016 revenue is up by 300% from 2014. At present, the e-commerce platform carries more than 1000 fashion brands with 120,000 products sold on the site.

Forever21

Forever21 is a Korean fashion brand founded by a husband and wife team in 1984. The brand’s story is one for the books. New immigrants in the United States with barely a college education, they started with $11,000 and capitalized on wholesale closeouts. The venture proved to be successful as they earned $700,000 in sales that year.

Now, 790 stores and growing in 48 countries, the Changs saw the opportunity of increasing their sales even more online. Again, that proved to be a good move as their e-commerce store’s 2017 global revenue was $456.8 million.

What makes the brand’s online store successful?

One, they make sure that the products they sell are always in line with their brand’s value.

Two, they continually update their products so people will have something new every time they visit the store.

Three, they have a dynamic affiliate program which plays a huge factor in their sales.

Flipkart

Flipkart is considered the #1 online store in India. Its founders, Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal, used to work for Amazon so it’s not surprising to see that they modeled their online store after their former employer.

Like Amazon, Flipkart started selling books only, but as the company grew, it acquired different businesses including Lulu.com and Myntra. Soon, it began selling other stuff from toys to clothes to tech gadgets.

Flipkart’s estimated revenue as of 2017 is $2.8 billion.

Conclusion

All the above e-commerce stores started small, but with the right attitude and strategy, they were able to beat all odds and reach success. If you are planning to establish your online store, learn from these success stories.

Bitcasino.io, the world’s first licensed bitcoin casino, has recently re-launched with a new and advanced website. With up to eight times faster loading speed compared to its competitors, Bitcasino.io is now offering the fastest and most user-friendly casino experience to the bitcoin gambling enthusiasts around the world.

Tallinn, Estonia December 4, 2018

Bitcasino.io is pleased to announce that their new and improved website is now up and running. Operated by the Coingaming Group, Bitcasino is the first ever licensed bitcoin-led online casino dedicated to offering a fair, fast, and fun gaming experience to gamers globally.

With the launch of their new website, Bitcasino has earned the distinction of becoming one of the world’s fastest loading online casinos, with eight times faster loading speeds compared to most of its competitors.

It’s well known that loading speed is one of the most important parameters of satisfaction for users of any website. Slow loading websites not only create frustration among users, but also causes serious navigation issues. Therefore, Bitcasino’s team of designers and developers spent the last two months relentlessly working to create the most responsive, mobile-first and customer-friendly online casino.

The new mobile-first Bitcasino site loads in just two seconds, which is thirteen seconds quicker and eight times faster compared to some of the most accomplished bitcoin gaming brands.

The launch of this new website has now opened up the quickest route to the ultimate casino experience for the new generation of technology savvy gamers who wish to play and withdraw within a matter of minutes.

The re-launched Bitcasino website, however, is not just about speed. It also offers a host of features that enable players to completely personalise their experience, including an extensive range of configurable search filters, additional cryptocurrency options, easy-to-use and control wallet options, and a wide range of new and improved promotions.

Designed based on feedback from existing players, the new Bitcasino site utilises personalised filter capabilities to offer games which suit the precise preferences of individual players.

Tauri Tiitsaar, the Head of Casino at Bitcasino.io said, “Our players wanted a faster loading site, with personalisation and a wide range of search parameters at the heart of the offering. We listen closely to every element of feedback we receive and have delivered on our promises with an exceptional product.”

In the coming weeks, as part of a drive for continuous improvements, players will also be allowed to search for games that suit the gameplay type of any particular player, including parameters such as Return to Player (RTP) percentage, hit frequency and volatility.

The new website contains over 1500 games for every and any type of player, whether they prefer feature-rich games with smaller but more frequent wins, or classic high volatility slots with less hit frequency but huge payouts. It also offers lightning-fast deposits and withdrawals secured by the blockchain, anonymously and effortlessly.

The Bitcasino team has even thought about those new to crypto world and continue to work with BTCXE, the industry’s first fiat-to-Bitcoin currency converter, allowing anyone the opportunity to securely and easily join in the crypto casino fun.

“Our philosophy is to put our customers at the center of the universe, and we have done exactly that with our re-launched Bitcasino product which truly is the ultimate, player-centric, mobile-first product,” Tauri added.

About Bitcasino: Founded in 2014 as part of the Coingaming Group, Bitcasino is the world’s leading bitcoin-led casino operator. Bitcasino has an expansive, quality casino product featuring more than 1,500 games, including slots, table games and live dealer casinos from some of the industry’s leading suppliers. These are hosted on its proprietary platform, developed by leading designers and software engineers to create the ultimate user experience for players.

TechFinancials a listed fintech software provider of financial solutions including blockchain-based digital assets and traditional financial trading solutions for retail clients, is pleased to announce that the CEDEX blockchain diamond exchange, CEDEX, has gone live in Beta mode, allowing investors to trade diamonds as a financial asset class. TechFinancials has a 2 percent interest and an option to acquire a further 90 per cent of Cedex Holdings Ltd, the holding company for the CEDEX blockchain-based online exchange for diamonds which would give TechFinancials up to 92 % of CEDEX or 87.4 % on a fully diluted basis.

TechFinancials has played a major role in the launch of CEDEX as the main provider of the infrastructure, blockchain and smart contract development on which the CEDEX platform is built.

CEDEX allows investors to securely and easily trade in digitized diamonds (DDC – Digital Diamond Certificate), while enabling diamond holders to liquidate their assets. Using the innovative DEX proprietary algorithm and blockchain technology, CEDEX has overcome the three main obstacles that have prevented diamonds from becoming a tradable asset class: lack of transparency, liquidity and standardization.

In order to overcome these obstacles, CEDEX has focused on the following activities over the past six months:

Developing the proprietary DEX algorithm and building the diamond commodity exchange in conjunction with TechFinancials;

Establishing business relations with diamond dealers in order for them to supply the initial diamond inventory on the CEDEX platform, which will comprise over 2000 diamonds in specific categories, at the time of the launch;

Constructing the complex logistic business solution to support the product launch, including setting up business relations with custodians, GIA (Gemological Institute of America) and shipping partners;

Obtaining the legal approvals to offer the phase one product worldwide.

Asaf Lahav, Chief Executive Officer of TechFinancials commented: “We are delighted to have played a pivotal part in the launch of the first blockchain-based diamond exchange in the world. This milestone achievement is testament to the innovative capabilities of both CEDEX and TechFinancials to build a new, ground breaking platform and we look forward to updating the market on its progress in due course.”

Saar Levi, Chief Executive Officer of CEDEX stated: “This is a major step forward in our exciting journey to transform diamonds into an asset class. At CEDEX, we are commited to realizing our long term vision in which both institutional and individual investors will be able to trade diamonds as one of the leading commodities.”

Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) Disclosure

Certain information contained in this announcement would have been deemed inside information for the purposes of Article 7 of Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 until the release of this announcement.

Cryptocurrency trading is all set to become safe and profitable like never before, with the recent launch of a fully automated crypto trading platform by Napston. This groundbreaking trading platform is based on a proprietary technology called Distributed Artificial Neural Networks that has been programmed to accurately predict the market by utilizing the processing power from thousands of independent sources.

Hong Kong, November 26, 2018

Napston is pleased to announce that their new, fully automated cryptocurrency trading platform has recently gone live. Built around the company’s proprietary Distributed Artificial Neural Networks, Napston creates an opportunity even for the inexperienced crypto enthusiasts to earn a decent passive interest on their Bitcoin and Ethereum holdings.

Since the creation of bitcoin in 2009, over three hundred different cryptocurrencies have been launched. As a result of the extreme volatility of the crypto market, trading of cryptocurrencies has emerged as a lucrative alternative for the traders around the world. However, this can be an extremely complex and risky proposition without a trustworthy trading platform.

Napston entered the cryptocurrency space in 2013, long before it became mainstream. Over the last five years, the company has been through all the uncertainties and fluctuations of this evolving market. During this phase, Napston was serving only the larger corporate and high net worth individual customers, helping them properly structure and trade their cryptocurrency portfolios. They have spent a high percentage of profits to build the proprietary Distributed Artificial Neural Networks technology. This advanced technology has now formed the foundation of Napston’s automated crypto trading platform.

A DANN is a network of nodes, just like neural networks in the human brain. They are programmed to predict the market with a high degree of accuracy. This accuracy, however, depends entirely on the processing power available. This problem has been addressed by utilizing the computing power generated by a large and highly distributed network of computers.

Some of the most lucrative trading benefits offered by Napston are

Up to 1.5% per business day without actually doing any trades

Instant withdrawals

Referral incentives over 20%, up to 10 levels

Get started in 30 seconds

Full transparency and detailed reporting

State-of-the-art security across the platform

Full compliance

Napston is currently offering three attractive trading packages that can be purchased with Bitcoin and Ethereum. Generous referral commissions are also up for grabs. Mentioned below are the three packages at a glance.

“Our just launched trading platform is only about helping you earn the profit on your otherwise dormant Bitcoins or Ethereum without breaking a sweat yourself, “ said a senior spokesperson from Napston. “We believe there’s serious demand for that and the customers who have already joined us prove that vision.”

About Napston: Napston is a just launched cryptocurrency trading platform built on a proprietary technology called Distributed Artificial Neural Networks. This 100% automated platform is dedicated to helping individuals earn a decent passive interest from their dormant Bitcoin and Ethereum holdings with minimum skill and effort. Napston currently offers three trading packages, offering 1.5% per day and over 20% referral incentives.

The new platform Bitsgap is designed to allow traders to easily trade and manage cryptocurrency on all exchanges from one interface.

Tallinn, Estonia, November 25th, 2018 – Bitsgap has introduced a new platform that unifies both trading and asset management for more than 30 popular cryptocurrency exchanges. The service provides a unique experience for all traders – with a fully secure and reliably fast interface for cryptocurrency spot trading on the top cryptocurrency exchanges, the platform can access more than 10,000 crypto pairs.

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The rapid development of the crypto industry saw both the interest of investors and traders spike as well as the trading volume on exchanges skyrocket. Since the market was not prepared for such a customer inflow, issues around the provision of service soon appeared. The situation on the market also forced many traders to manage several exchange accounts while looking for the best trading opportunity.

“We noticed that crypto traders are experiencing difficulties searching for the best prices on different exchanges making not efficient trading decisions. Our goal became to implement a unified solution which will offer a hassle-free trading experience for everyone”, said Maxim Kalmykov, CEO at Bitsgap

“With Bitsgap platform we also implemented risk management tools like Stop Loss / Take Profit, Arbitrage, and Portfolio tracking services to cover all the needs to trade and manage crypto assets.”

The Platform resolved most of the issues by combining all tools and services into one :

Trading. The trading platform itself demonstrates Bitsgap’s focus on helping users to manage their trades in the most effective way by giving access to a comprehensive list of features. In a matter of seconds, a trader can switch between exchanges and pairs while staying on the same browser tab.

Users are free to trade on all supported exchanges – watch the rates in their local currency, move open orders directly on the charts, use the most common and useful drawing tools and oscillators for TA as well as compare price points on multiple markets. The platform also allows the user to observe different pairs correlation as well as execute trades with predefined Stop Loss & Take Profit order.

Arbitrage. The price for the same asset on exchanges may differ due to low capitalization and unregulated volatility can sometimes be high, allowing users to make hundreds of dollars from a single trade. Therefore, traditional arbitrage methodology which involves a withdraw and deposit procedure is somewhat outdated and often fails. The Bitsgap developed an effective tool to assist with a simple set up and instant arbitrage execution.

Portfolio. The live portfolio tracking allows traders to monitor recent transactions on all connected exchanges and provide a detailed summary of trading activity. The platform enables users to know exactly how much money they are making and highlight the most successful trades made in the past.

DEMO. The Bitsgap team brought trading closer to novice users and introduced a demo-mode that allows testing trading strategies in a risk-free environment on all the supported exchanges.

The best part ofBitsgap is that the service is surprisingly fast and importantly free to use. The support service resolves issues within a few business days and the team has prepared a detailed knowledge base with internal user tools to help on board new customers.

For more information about Bitsgap, and free account sign up, please visitwww.bitsgap.com or send an email to support@bitsgap.com.

About Bitsgap

Bitsgap is an Estonian based company, revolutionized cryptocurrency trading. The platform provides hassle-free experience in Trading, Portfolio Tracking, and Arbitrage with access to more than 30 major crypto exchanges and supports trading for 10,000 currency pairs. For more information or free sign-up, visit www.bitsgap.com

Fancy seeing how the top brass in blockchain are laying the foundations for a mind-boggling future we’ll all reap the benefits from? If you can get yourself to London on November 21st, you’ll see it all up close and personal.

Event hosting masters Webrazzi are laying down the gauntlet for the rest of the crypto world to follow, with its Blockchain Venture Summit gracing London with its presence at the central 8 Northumberland venue.

With an intimate and exclusive allocation of just 500 tickets, the summit has already nearly sold out, even though the agenda has just been announced. The word ‘hotcakes’ comes to mind.

Attendees can expect to witness great things as the keynotes, panels and discussions will be delivered from a cluster of those at the very top of the blockchain game, from crypto investors, to venture capitalists, and hedge fund managers to trail-blaising entrepreneurs: it’s an all-star line up that doesn’t pull any punches.

Discussions and speeches will be across a multitude of hot topics, from Equity vs Token investments, unlocking institutional money, blockchain investing, mining, the future of crypto venture capital, corporate ventures, what’s in store for ICOs, security tokens and much more.

Many of the big-hitting blockchain speakers come from an array of heavyweight influential companies in the scene, with the likes of Consensys, StakeZero Ventures, Cambrial, Kryptonite1, Outlier Ventures and more stepping up to deliver the goods.

For those desperate to get tickets, luckily there are still a few ‘hotcakes’ for folks who act fast to get their hands on. And how’s this for an extra bonus, use the promo code “BVSLDN18” and you’ll receive a discount on the ticket price… if you’re quick off the draw.

Real estate, despite its reputation as one of the best fields for investment for, still has plenty of roadblocks that prevent quite a lot of people from putting their money into it. SWINCA is a platform for crypto real estate industry that is going to deal with existing major problems of the field including:

lack of liquidity in the real estate asset market;

long and costly transactions;

geographic and related economic limitations;

extremely long and unproductive ownership processes;

inevitable intermediaries and their costs;

unfair monopolies.

SWINGA’s primary goal is to level the field of global real estate market so that anyone can participate in investing into any apartment, office, house or land anywhere in the world. SWINCA also wants to provide the means to create diverse real estate portfolio with much less trouble and effort.

Dealing with The Issues: SWINCA’s Solutions

SWINCA is planning to solve those issues with blockchain, providing every investor with an opportunity to become an owner of multiple high-yield properties across the world. First of all, crypto would allow both large and small investors play on the plain field of big project that normally would be unreachable for most of the public. Blockchain also allows for swift and instant transaction of funds, effortlessly bypassing months of waiting that this process usually takes. All of that will definitely bring liquidity into the market. In addition, blockchain helps SWINCA to make transactions transparent and secure for all participants.

How it works

SWINCA tokenizes real estate assets from all around the world on blockchain. Once the investments are allocated to the property, investors start receiving rent and capital gain automatically, without the management issues that come with traditional form of such investment.

SWINCA selects the best investment opportunities after thorough global search and detailed analysis of potential profitability. Then SWINCA negotiates the deals, acquires the properties, taking care of all legal and management issues. The properties might be at any development stage and of a variety of exploitation.

SWINCA Tokenomics

SWINCA tokenomics is based on SWI coin and NCA token. The SWI coin is intended as both internal and external to the platform and can be traded on the exchanges as well. The NCA token is exclusively internal to the platform, representing specific shares of property.

SWINCA Coin Distribution

SWINCA ICO undergoes before the completion of the project. The platform is developed so that the coin sale with ICO hard cap of $75m would be distributed in the following way:

2% Private Sale;

3% Marketing and Bounties;

5% Founders;

5% Employees and Advisors;

35% Presale, Pre-ICO and ICO;

50% Pools and Masternode.

The SWINCA will enter Pre-ICO stage on November 26th. The ICO will begin on February 1th, 2019, and the SWINCA Real Estate will begin its work on April 5th, 2019. Please, visit our website www.swinca.io for more details.

OSA DC, featured in Entrepreneur, WIRED and Forbes, is the world’s first decentralized, AI-driven marketplace, providing real-time solutions to retailers, manufacturers, and consumers.

OSA’s own token (ticker OSA) will begin trading at Bibox Exchange starting from November 5th, as initiated by OSA Token holders during the community voting, where OSA took first place.

Since the company’s founding in 2015, OSA DC has provided services to major international brands including Coca-Cola, Mars, L’Oreal, Nestle, and Metro Cash & Carry. Gigawatt, UnU, Xblock, Group of companies CoinEgg, Benrui Capital, Cobinhood Fund, Mars Finance are among the long list of OSA DC partners.

OSA DC is headed by CEO Alex Isaev, a retail industry veteran with 20 years of experience behind him. Mr. Isaev became known for criticising IBM (covered link) and standing for blockchain and AI synergy in retail industry.

The OSA Token will be listed with three trading pairs: OSA Token/ETH, OSA Token/BTC, OSA Token/USDT.